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List rows present in a table - Cant connect as other user checked it out

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Hi,

I am connecting to an excel table on a Share point site that is shared with others. I use the 'List rows present in a table' function as below;

As you can see I get an error stating that I cant connect as it is already locked out. I checked the file on share point and right enough the file was checked out to someone else. This is a problem as we want to run a flow on the excel sheet (we are just reading it not updating it) with a recurrence set to every day, but still allow all the users to check out / check in etc.

Is there a way to connect but still allow users to update etc.

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Hi @Marty3012 ,

Because this is a shared file, I am afraid there is no proper way to avoid this problem.

You can only try to wait for the file to be checked in and then configure this Flow again.

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Thanks for your reply.

A further question - If my flow is turned on all the time and I have a connection to the Excel file on Share Point, does that mean that the file will appear as checked out to myself permanently? We did a check and noticed that every time I created a connection via the 'List rows present in a table' in my flow other people could not edit the file as it would appear checked out to myself. Just wanted to check if this was the case.

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